Floor Trim Around Hearth

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Floor trim around hearth.

With any wood type floor from solid wood laminate the way it looks around a fire hearth is massively important. Trimming a wood floor around a hearth. Transitioning from hardwood to a hearth is tricky whether the hearth is level with the floor or raised. Once both cuts are made carefully chisel out the area that has been cut.

The hearth being lower than the floor will call attention to the fact that a new floor was added. I think a one piece slab would look good. Item 1524924 model lmqsu00603. Methods for using this tool calls for two cuts into the hearth.

Concrete would work with a faux finish. In this case i would add a new hearth. My hearth is a similar set up black hearth and a wood floor fitted after hearth was put in. After the flooring is installed it will provide the best appearance possible.

A place where your eyes and your visitors naturally gravitate. How to trim laminate floor around a fireplace. Floating floors require an expansion gap around all fixed objects. Fixed objects include walls pipes trim and transitions.

You have options for trimming a laminate floor where it meets a flush or raised hearth at a fireplace. Floating floors will expand and contract with changes in the interior home climate. Not leaving the proper expansion gap around all fixed objects could lead to buckling squeaking or end joint peaking. My fitter has used a line of black filler which looks very unnoticeable.

The hearth is often an aspect that really doesn t come into peoples minds as being important until the floor is fitted. An original hearth would be even with or higher than the floor. I wouldn t be very happy with the thickness of your trim or the colour as it catches the eye too much. Smartcore 0 71 in x 94 49 in blue ridge pine plastic floor quarter round.

One at the finished vertical height of the floor so the flooring will slide under and the other flush with the subfloor.